[Pattie Olson]

Thanks for your response Matt!

I didn’t realize I would need two different sites built. I thought that if a site was built with mobile in mind, then it would cover the needs of both the regular computer and the mobile devices. I understand that now.

So when I build a site, how do I direct a mobile user to the mobile site from the regular site? Do I put a link at the top that goes to the mobile friendly site? (Pardon my ignorance, but I don’t have a mobile device for the internet. I’ll stop by a store and ask to see a demo.)

My understanding is that Flash is not supported on anything mobile Mac related, correct? As a website designer, what file format do you suggest video files should be for viewing on a mobile device? I agree that the file size can’t be too large, but since my vids are only 2.5 – 3 minutes and not HD, I think I can I can have a small size file, yet decent picture quality, at least for SD. Is .mov a good choice or do you have a better suggestion?

Thank you again for your explanation and time.

Regards,
Pattie

[Pattie Olson]

Thank you for your response Michael.

I did exactly as you instructed, the camera connected perfectly and the computer sees it also. But when I go to the CMU InstallWizard and hit “Next” the window comes up that “No supported device is detected” and that’s as far as it goes. Any other idea I could try? I can transfer files no problem, I just thought since something came on the DVD with the camera it would help me to use it. What does the CMU provide?

BTW, I’ve been reading thru a lot of your posts about the NX5U and I greatly appreciate all your advice and insight. It has shortened my learning curve during this process.

Regards,
Pattie

[Pattie Olson]

Thanks Steven,

I should have returned to post here that I did get it after all. I am going thru the Lynda.com tutorials, and had activated the R, but overlooked to follow thru with the I.

I am still going thru the tutorials, but will probably have additional questions in the future as I climb thru the learning curve.

Thanks for your time and response, I appreciate it!
Pattie

[Pattie Olson]

Thanks for your response.
I rendered it into a .mov then burned a DVD via Encore and it looked nasty.
This photo montage was for my nephew’s Eagle Scout ceremony and I had the high quality digital file from the pro photographer which is what was getting ugly when I reduced it. I have a framed photo of him, so I scanned it at a high resolution, used it and it worked OK. I sacrificed about 10% sharpness when the photo was enlarged and close up, but ended up with a much nicer full photo of him when the whole photo was reduced to fill a little less than half the screen.

I had the photo large in the beginning, so that a patch on his uniform (which took up a third of the screen) dissolved in. I needed to have good detail there. Then it reduced to show the whole photo and in that reduction keyframing, at about 44% is when I noticed problems kicking in.

Luckily, it was shown on a large wall in a church, so it looked fine. I never got a chance to see it on my sister’s nice TV, so I hope to get a look in a few weeks, then I’ll be able to really judge the final quality. I had intentions to go back and try a few more things, but haven’t done that yet.

Thanks again to all who responded for your help, it is greatly appreciated.
Pattie

[Pattie Olson]

Thanks Ann,
I searched this issue and came across the dpi and the pixel issue you had posted on another question here on another thread. I’m going to try dropping the dpi to 72 and keep the pixel numbers to see what results I get. Since I have a hard copy of the photo available, I scanned it and used that image and got results I can live with. I am going to keep trying some different suggestions to see how good I can get it.
BTW, I looked at your YT channel and you have wonderful examples of your work on there. The ones I had a chance to view were really, really nice and I plan to go back and view some additional ones.

I appreciate your response,
Pattie

[Pattie Olson]

What you are describing about having a really large still and reducing it down and it not looking very good is exactly what I’m seeing here.

The image is RGB, I’ve tried it also as a PNG, but never dropped dpi below 175, but I’ll give it a try.

Thank you for your response, I appreciate it

Pattie

[Pattie Olson]

Thanks for your reply Vincent, I tried your suggestion, (which BTW I never knew existed) but still get a jagged image. The other photos in the montage are fine, even the ones that pan and zoom. For some reason this one photo, which is from a professional photographer is not cooperating in Premiere. Since it is a pic of my nephew, I have a hard copy I pulled out and scanned as a large file. It’s a great photo, works well when enlarged, details are great, but when I scale down to the small size, as it gets half way to the size I need, the jaggy’s start creeping in. Is there something about taking a large photo image and reducing it that Prem doesn’t like?

Thanks for any help
Pattie

[Pattie Olson]

Thanks for the response Chris,

I reduced the dpi from 300 to 100, made the pixel dimensions 900 x 1209 and saved it as a PNG. It came into Prem smaller, and the details when enlarged for the timeline are still good, but when I scale it down to show the whole photo, it’s still jaggy and far from a crisp photo. I brought the file into my iMac to see if that made any difference, but it looks the same in Prem there too.

Do you or anyone else have additional ideas, I’d love to hear them.

Thanks!
Pattie

[Pattie Olson]

Thanks for your response Ann,

I am on DV NTSC Wide Screen, working on a PC, PPro5.5 My system is not having trouble handling the file size, just a little long to render, but not bad.
I’ve tried it both with and without the always deinterlace setting selected. I assume the timeline is interlaced, I don’t know how to determine that.

When the photo comes on the screen, it is scaled at 112 and it’s a perfect photo. Then I scale it to 14. When I scrub, the jaggy lines start appearing at 44. I’ve burned the short section and watched it on a small widescreen, an old television and on an iMac and it looks nasty on all three.

Thanks for your help

[Pattie Olson]

Thanks for your response Ann,

I was doing searches for anything to do with “capture” problems and this morning happened to do a search with “device offline” and a thread came up with that link. I do appreciate you posting it and I’m in the middle of it now.

I greatly appreciate your help!

Kind regards,

Pattie